House Unpassed Legislation 1787, Docket 2660, SC1/series 230, Petition of Moses Brown

Petition subject: Abolition of the slave trade Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935256 Date of creation: 1787-11-01 Petition location: Providence, Rhode Island Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee of the House of Representatives and Senate on the memorial of the people called Quakers Selected signatures:Moses Brown Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: One of the committee to address the state of Massachusetts on the subject of the slave trade Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: yearly meeting, Quakers, slave trade, act Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1787, Docket 2660 Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.